#nhs reforms

[eatyourfudgetrevnolongerhere]

[eatyourfudgetrevnolongerhere]

Clegg chose Lords Reform instead of killing NHS bill

by Sunny Hundal     

The Times this morning had this extraordinary revelation (page 12), which its author Sam Coates tells me is absolutely true.

Nick Clegg had an opportunity to kill the NHS bill last year after the AV debacle.

Instead he chose to push for House of Lords reform.

Source here.

Nicky... you're a joke of a politician. I mean, really.

[darkoverord]

It's not RIP NHS. And it's narking me off just how many people are complaining about this.

You wanna say RIP NHS? Then you wanna put that date years ago. There has been gradual privatisation in the NHS since before, and during Tony Blair's terms as Prime Minister.

If you're gonna consider this RIP, then you're years late.It was already dead. While I don't support increased privatisation, and I don't agree on competition. I honestly want to see how you'd "save" it. Well besides going "reclaim taxes", we know that's never going to happen.

However, people are claiming all doom and gloom, I'm sorry did you miss this?

It will give GPs control of much of the NHS's £106bn annual budget

In case you forgot, rapidly during Labour's terms did businessmen not doctors have control of the NHS. All those targets you talk of were to make the NHS not save money, but to make a profit out of it. The countries problems with privatisation were an issue that was there long before this bill. Hell before this bill came in, need I point out that almost ever "minor" sequence in the NHS was no long in the nations interests? But were already under Private Control?

Hell, if people say the bill will ruin the NHS, the issues were already going. I'm sorry but it's not in the past year the NHS and GP's were considering dropping minor surgery from the NHS' "free of charge" works. It's not been in the past year that the NHS and GP's considered privatising almost all the other issues.

The NHS at the core will still exist, and will still be highly controlled by a government, Labour or Tory, who have been slyly privatising the "National" Health Service for more than twenty years...

RIP NHS, 1970s

ADDENDUM: It just occurs to me that even if the HMRC reclaimed lost taxes it still wouldn't cover the 106 billion pound bill it has per year...

[amaluelmwood]

We can now reveal what really happened at Newcastle RVI [(or David Cameron vs NHS staff)]

For background you might want to refer to this article first.

On Tuesday past, Conservative Central Office announced that the PM was to make a high profile visit to an NHS Hospital, to a) bolster support for his NHS reform,and b) raise issue of binge drinking. But, as I outlined in my previous post, there was an incident at the hospital. I can now reveal the details of what is alleged to have happened.

The staff were never informed of the Prime Minister's visit, and were  affronted when Cameron arrived at their Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary. I am told that the entire staff refused to speak to the Prime Minister, and this caused quite a stir. It transpires that the shift manager (or matron- I cannot confirm which) was left to 'handle the PM'. Cameron was also assigned close police protection for his entire time in the hospital. The PM was shepherded into the back corridors to give his interview in isolation, apparently because the grimaces and frowns of staff members would have caused an embarrassment.  One staff member joked that the 'only persons who were smiling was his police protection'.

One staff member launched a verbal volley of criticisms at the Prime Minister for breaking his promise on the NHS reforms. The content of the abuse centred around Cameron foisting unwanted reforms upon NHS staff who were unanimously opposed to them. The angry staff member was led away, and is now facing disciplinary action.

The rest of the staff were explicitly instructed that, pending the outcome of the disciplinary hearing, they were to keep quiet about the incident. It was under these auspices that staff have been sworn to silence.  None of them are willing to go on record and say what happened, even though 4 separate sources have confirmed similar versions of the same event. Three of the sources stated that they feared for their jobs if they went public.

I will repeat what I said yesterday. Prime Minister, David Cameron, you can end all of this speculation by instructing your spokesperson to issue a polite rebuttal. It might well be that these stories are fabricated (they sometimes are), but in the face of these allegations, I am very concerned that so little has appeared in our press. I am most concerned with the fact that the local press have not reported this incident. How many journalists did you allow to accompany you on the visit?

If the story is true, it shows that David Cameron does not have the support among the health service for his reforms. These reforms are ideologically motivated and unwanted, and if the Risk Registers turn out to be correct, they will irreversibly destroy our NHS.

The Green Benches

Fuck Cameron and his NHS Reforms. Nobody wants them. They're going to make things worse. And he's breaking the promises he made, like a good little Politician.

[my-ocardialinfarction]

A very simple glance at the NHS reforms

I'm still fuzzy on the finer details of this but I'm hoping that interviewers won't expect interviewees to know a massive great detail on them, we're not doctors yet!

Main points:

Abolition of primary care trusts/formation of GP commissioning consortia.

Greater competition with external providers of healthcare.

Pros/cons:

On the surface, giving the role of funding and management to GPs may seem beneficial. Many doctors have complained that managers are only concerned with cutting costs, and that they do not understand the importance of patient care. However, most GPs have not had any management training or experience, and so their focus may be diverted away from patient and clinical care. They may also have to get private management companies to assist in funding, which will make further setbacks on budgets. What is also worrying is the effect this may have on patient-doctor relationships. Patients may be concerned that their GPs will have financial motives, affecting the quality of care they receive.

Again, on the surface the encouragement of competition can be seen as a good thing - patients will have a greater choice in the type of care they receive. However the main concern is whether or not this would lead to a two-tiered system of healthcare as well as a 'postcode lottery' of services - some areas may have a better availability of services than others depending on what is provided by the private firms in the area, which may only be afforded by a certain (richer) percentage of the population. Another concern is how this increased competition will affect integration of healthcare, which is needed greatly in the care of the elderly as well as those with chronic illnesses.

[oxycontent]

''I'm surprised there was such a cheer from the audience about taking Andrew Lansley out and shooting him...' - Alistair Campbell you're a foooooooooool. Multiple o's for emphasis. 

[dalewood]

In politics terms Prof. Field is obviously a loose cannon because constructive as some of his suggestion are what will be remembered from his interview with the Guardian is the headline 'Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms are unworkable, says review chief' Well whether you call it politics or not David Cameron seems to have shot himself in the foot with his appointment of Prof. Steve Field to review the NHS reforms. Prof. Field is obviously a loose cannon because constructive as some of his suggestion are what will be remembered from his interview with the Guardian is the headline 'Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms are...

[kyohealth-blog]

Who’s gonna put a ding in the health care universe? 

Those of us in health care social media circles often ask “Who is the Steve Jobs of health care?” or “Where is the Richard Branson of health care?” or some such. We’re looking out for the major game-changers, the mavericks capable of putting a ding in the health care universe of the future? No doubt there are contenders out there and some of them may be found at TedMed in San Diego later this month.

  At last year’s event it was Thomas Goetz who stood out for me with his talk about the need to redesign medical data. He asked why our health records are so hard to access and impossible to read, yet full of information that could help us get healthier if we just knew how to use it. He used his executive editorship of Wired magazine to publish some great illustrations showing just how well health information would be properly designed and displayed for patients.